The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-27
EATING THE FLESH OF DOGS.
Mrs. Hammermiller and Children Dine
Off Their Pet Canine.
From the Chicago Tribune.


Off Their Pet Canine.
From the Chicago Tribune.
An oldish little German woman wearing
faded dark calico dress aud a shapeless
straw bonnet stepped brislIly and in bust
ness-like way into the prisoners dock at the
Chicago Avenue Police Court yesterday
when the name of Maurice Hammermiller
was called He was charged with keeping
vicious dog.
my husband is sick, Judge, and I came in
his place, - vouchsafed the little woman in
German in answer to the look of inquiry in
the Justices eyes.
''Well my good woman. has he killed that
dog as he was ordered? You see, the little
boy who was bitten is on hand to prosecute,
and shall certainly assess a fine if my or
ders have not been ebeyed."
80, yah, de dog is dett fer tree or CUB
be days Amt it, otiicer?"
81 guess the dogs dead, your Honor, -
said the officer appealed to. "She showed
me the hide and feet of a dog, and said it
was the one what bit the little boy here"
did you skin your dog" asked the court
in establishment.
"Yah, certain"
''What for!'
Because we want de meat"
WANT the meat? What forw
''To eat, of course. Me boil de meat, and
den it is ready. Mine husband have lung
disease; ind he say dat dog meat is good for
him. SO it is eat
There certainly is no doubt of the death
of that dog and such being the case my
jurisdiction ends" half soliloquized his
Honor as he thought over the little wom-
ans strange statement 80, yes-yes, you
may go, your husband is discharged. I'm
satisfied that the dogs dead" and with a
Yankee. schon," she left the dock, smiling
and happy.
Mrs. Maurice HammermilIer, like Miss
Nina Van Zandt, keeps number of dogs.
Mrs. Hammermiller lives at No Sc INLAND
street and her husband works for Kuh,
Nathan & Fischer. INLAND street is a queer,
little Y-shaped alley up in the Fifteenth
Ward, with the stem of the Y inserted at
about No. 15l ClybOurn avenue. Mrs. Ham
mnrmiller's dogs annoy the neighbors some
what, lust as Miss Van Iandt's did. The
apparently utilitarian character of Mrs.
Hammerlniller's fad led a reporter to call on
that lady last evening. In this city, where
beef and pork are SO plentiful, and where
whitefish and sea turtle can be had almost
for the asking, dog meat is hardly ever
heard Of 1t is not quoted in the market.
Nobody fattens dogs for the stock yards.
The very sausages are made out Of pork in
this city.
Mrs. Hammermiller was found on the
front steps of her residence surrounded by
her family-a family of at least two success
sive generations. She is a little, weakened
old party, with a complexion like a last
wears apple When before Justice Kesston
She claimed to be unable to speak English
and her evidence was given through an in
terpreter But she talked English pretty
we'll to the reporter, and when she got en-
tangled in an English idiom her daughter,
a smart young woman, who was nursing
a year-old baby, Clipped i'll and helped her
out:
''Mr. Hammermiler is sick, isn't he?" the
reporter asked. Consumption, | under
standW
''He ain'd got no consumption nit him
vat knows Of" replied Mrs Hammermil
Ter, a little tartlv He vas sick NIT cough,
but he's peter alretty."
"What is it YOU wantM asked the young
woman with the baby.
81 was told Mr. Hammermiller had eaten
doo's flesh to cure him of consumption, and
| wanted to know if it cured him, said the
reporter.
sEDer dog was a good healthy dog said
Mrs. Hammermiller ''und eaten him mine
selluf.n
''Ate him all yourself"
81 fried him desc days, und ] odder days
him boiled, und ne was goot dog, ind der
children some of him eat, und ] eat him,
und we all of us him eat. He was a goot
toy
Els dogs flesh healthy"
''Yah. Nine bruddcr in Germany he tells
me of rich peoples what cat dogs. We
often dogs cat in Germany. His fat ] rub it
on mine breast. It's good to cure sick poo
pies. Mine man he have cough, and spit,
spit cough ,cough-ast winter it was-and he
took some dog and he spit it all up and was
peter. 1t cures dipteery and bronchitis, or
vat you call it,.
"Did you give Some of the dog to tire
children"
"Yah. lie vas goot toy l give him to
der children ind cat him minesef"
Come into the house, mother" said the
Young woman with the baby. "What is
all this about. What is he asking you things
forW
Hes IA police, amt it?' said the old lady,
looking at the reporter with large note Of
interrogation in her face.
The reporter said he was interested in
dogs, and that it was beautiful weather for
this time OF the year, and then he came
away.